Folders constantly change from list to icon view by themselves

For example, I'll open my Applications folder, change it to list view, close it, then a few minutes later open it again and it'll be in icon view. There's no rhyme or reason as to when this happens or with which folders. This used to happen in 10.3 as well and I could never figure out how to keep folders in the view I want them. Thanks.

It could be, it is a corrupt .DS_Store file. In this files, the Finder store the window settings. You could try to remove this files. I mean too, that is an generally problem under 10.3.
You can use: sudo find / -name .DS_Store -delete, this delete all .DS_Store files. Or use sudo find . -name .DS_Store -delete, if you want only delete this files in your location.

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